Take A Damn Break (And Read These Pieces)

This week’s reading list focuses on the important of taking breaks during your work load/work week, and shares a bunch of inspiring Christian-related pieces, poetry, and content you need to read right now.

“Rain has no parameter, no geometry, no shape, no meter, no rhyme. It has no borders. It spills over into everything. Perhaps you do not like the rain; you are one who likes limits. Or maybe it’s the opposite. Maybe rain is all borders, and you are desperate to be hemmed in. You don’t want an endless horizon. You want the dark body of the storm to bear down on you. You want to be left alone inside your private weather to write.”

“We are all people, all of us — the rich and the poor and the vast in-between; the parents and the grandparents and the people who choose not to have kids and the people who wish they could but can’t; the wives and the husbands and the single people and the people deeply in love who prefer not to put a label on it; the queer people and the straight people and the people who are figuring it out. None of these roles and labels confers or removes happiness or sadness.”

“Instead, I found myself tapping into my spirit at random moments — when I was particularly aware of the brilliance of a day or a written thought or a song or a piece of art; or even enjoying a sweet ordinary moment, a laugh or a snuggle. These little details of life are sewn into the drab day-to-day tapestry to add pops of color and sparkle, lifting me from boredom; and even, at times, despair.”